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Henry Kissinger’s Malevolent Influence Will Be With Us Long After He’s Gone Henry Kissinger’s Malevolent Influence Will Be With Us Long After He’s Gone

Kissinger’s brand of realpolitik was delusional, amoral, and ruthless—and it persists today.

Sep 6, 2023 / Rebecca Gordon

Joe Biden and Volodomyr Zelenskyy attend the G7 Declaration of Joint Support for Ukraine during the NATO Summit in Lithuania, on July 12.

Advocates for Negotiations to End the Ukraine War Need to Come Out of the Closet Advocates for Negotiations to End the Ukraine War Need to Come Out of the Closet

A brutal and interminable stalemate is forcing a foreign policy reset.

Sep 5, 2023 / Jeet Heer

The American History of Gun Violence

The American History of Gun Violence The American History of Gun Violence

Racism drives that train.

Sep 5, 2023 / OppArt / Sue Coe

The Senator Who Took On the CIA

The Senator Who Took On the CIA The Senator Who Took On the CIA

Frank Church and the committee that investigated the US intelligence agencies.

Sep 5, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Adam Hochschild

Port-au-Prince residents evacuate the city in a truck

The Biden Administration Cuts and Runs From Haiti The Biden Administration Cuts and Runs From Haiti

After more than a century bleeding the country, installing and abetting corrupt dictators, and suppressing democracy, the US government now advises Americans to flee.

Sep 1, 2023 / Amy Wilentz

Photographs of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger displayed during “Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship,” an exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile.

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide

Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be dec...

Aug 31, 2023 / Peter Kornbluh

Bernardo Arévalo celebrates his win

La Victoria de Bernardo Arévalo Trae a Guatemala Otra Primavera Democrática La Victoria de Bernardo Arévalo Trae a Guatemala Otra Primavera Democrática

La sorprendente victoria del candidato anticorrupción podría marcar una nueva temporada esperanzadora para el país. Pero sólo si se le permite tomar el poder y ejercerlo.

Aug 31, 2023 / Daniel Judt

wagner mercenary group soldier at memorial for yevgeny priogzhin

Prigozhin, Putin, and What Next? Prigozhin, Putin, and What Next?

Private military companies, war, and the dilemma of the elites.

Aug 24, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A police armored vehicle patrols an intersection on August 24, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Americans Are More Violent Than Ever, and We Have No One to Blame but Ourselves Americans Are More Violent Than Ever, and We Have No One to Blame but Ourselves

This has been a violent American century—but even less recognized is how our War on Terror helped us to turn on one another.

Aug 24, 2023 / Andrea Mazzarino

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at the Nixon Library on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, in Yorba Linda, CA.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Edgelord Foreign Policy Vivek Ramaswamy’s Edgelord Foreign Policy

We can see the future of Republicans’ ruling-class geopolitical agenda in his babble… and it sucks.

Aug 23, 2023 / Van Jackson

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